: People will use AI for everything from parole processing to granting mortgages, from marking …
: I’ve been sharpening my thinking about the necessary conditions to do good work, and how to achieve …
: That’s because possibility is the art of being willing to be wrong. It’s exploration. It’s far …
: Finished reading: The Wager by David Grann 📚like ship adventure tales? This is a good one.
: I love these kinds of lists.
: For example, it’s hard to write long and prolifically without cringing at the memory of some of your …
: One of my favorite quips from the very quotable Riley Quinn is that “leftists are cursed with …
: I don’t write the marmot to get attention. I write the marmot to “see what I …
: Breakfast bowl: a smidge of leftover turkey meatloaf, the last of some mushrooms, cabbage that had …
: It’s tempting to imagine we have less power than we do. It lets us off the hook. For now. #Area …
: I’d prefer to think of it as a manifesto for diversity of communications, the freedom to share your …
: I think the headline says it all.
: Somewhere between the late 2000’s aggregator sites and the contemporary For You Page, we lost our …
: Year in books for 2023 Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.or at least the ones I kept track of. I can see I did …
: Here’s how my imaginary program would work. There would be a pot of money at the center of it, …
: I love this idea for marking a birthday. And I love this first wish: I wish the form of media was …
: The idea of NFTs can be solid if put into practice purely on the technological aspects of what they …
: AI is a force multiplier for all aspects of our lives — both for good and for bad. I believe good …
: Intelligence can be artificial. Or it can be a tool to help humans survive a more complex, more …
: Everybody knows and is aware Meta brings a “trust deficit” to the Fediverse. The best mitigation …
: The proposed system, TrustNet, is a system for interacting with and managing trust. Underlying the …
: It’s worth pausing here for just a second to point out that, in reality, most of this technology is …
: There will always be a significant number of people, of any ideological persuasion, who will welcome …
: Tech Policy Press is rounding up what we do (and don’t) know about the forums and will continue to …
: The most interesting enrichment I’m releasing today is datasette-enrichments-gpt. This …
: Low-income neighborhoods and communities of color are more likely to be located in urban heat …
: Want to read: How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 📚
: It didn’t come up as directly, perhaps because many projects are still pilots rather than in …
: That meant that the “governance” of the web was often just a matter of the technical …
: It serves as a reminder for everyone, especially startups and businesses, to start thinking about …
: But the largest gains can be blamed on the poor decisions of other platforms. Tumblr saw an influx …
: I’ve found that thinking in terms of paying for a team helps me elevate my financial goals and …
: The “not dumb[ing] it down” is the sticky part for me, though: how much do I need to recreate my …
: The scholar must also have a good sense of the history of the question and the interests that drive …
: Ina’s thought bubble: The characterization of Grok could add a political dimension to the AI …
: I want user-focused pragmatists who aim high while understanding they don’t have the resources …
: How fast can you read 10GB from RAM? From SSD? There’s a subtle yet crucial skill that many …
: The effort to define the open internet as being about “blocking, throttling, and paid …
: Deeper involvement in the community started as an emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic. As …
: There are two key factors at play here: a loss of trust in journalistic institutions in favor of …
: However, the company is aiming to tackle some of the obstacles that have prevented users from …
: In our study, we found that Democrats are about twice as likely as Republicans to want to remove …
: When we talk about “the algorithm,” we mean a system for ordering information that uses …
: They have an entire personal history that you can never know and this history has shaped the way the …
: Companies developing models that pose serious risks to public health and safety, the economy or …
: Disinformation researchers have found relatively few A.I. fakes, and even fewer that are convincing. …
: The gene autocorrect problem was spotted nearly 20 years ago and appears to be getting worse. The …
: These little badges used to mean ‘notable person’ (in a chaotic and inconsistent way typical of the …
: If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand …
: Using Midjourney, we chose five prompts, based on the generic concepts of “a person,” “a woman,” “a …
: This study estimates the number of transgender teenagers affected by five types of laws and policies …
: Human well-being and dignity should be our North Star—with innovation in a supporting role. #Area …
: A Theory of Change exercise prompts individuals to think beyond research outputs and consider the …
: As we emerge into post-pandemic public spheres, we have the opportunity to imagine new versions of …
: I’m taking the emerging adult to college this weekend. I made a playlist.
: Data helps illuminate the issues in our communities and allows to identify gaps in our …
: In other words, vendors are competing on the quality, characteristics, and sometimes ideological …
: This is so much bad, I don’t know where to start. — crank.report
: Continuously executing against the obvious plan gets you much further than you’d think. From
: We are charging our commercial customers for our Copilots, and if their use creates legal issues, we …
: My hope is that most of the money will go directly to newsrooms, and to the sorts of shared …
: The lack of official data creates an impossible choice of invisibility or putting ourselves in …
: This marks one of the country’s largest mass arrests in recent years targeting homosexuality. From
: As I’ve written before, I would like to see a kind of tech union for newsrooms that would provide …
: If I ask Midjourney for an image in the style of a particular artist, some people consider this …
: The goal of those documents is to provide an implementation path for adding fediverse capabilities …
: Python practitioners can now marry scripts and rich visualizations with the widespread accessibility …
: My RSS reader is a place of joy, never of stress. I’ve tried to boil down the principles that makes …
: …we want to help journalists share data with each other and with the public without needing to …
: This document updates some OSPF terminology to be in line with inclusive language used in the …
: There is much to say about the summer of Taylor that is pertinent to technology and the Internet: …
: Reading is a place. The more you skip, the more it becomes browsing. And browsing is not a place. …
: “I don’t feel any satisfaction,” Clinton responded. “I feel great, just great profound sadness that …
: This tool is a collection of macros that work with Microsoft Word to export Word comments into a …
: It is an invitation to do your own experiments and explorations and learn about the protocol in this …
: A curated list of modern Generative Artificial Intelligence projects and services. From
: The findings paint a picture of youth who are proud to be queer, but still face discrimination and …
: It doesn’t always take an expert to spot when something is off, but it usually takes an expert to …
: Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚catching up my reading …
: The only code you should ever build yourself is that which adds to your core value proposition. …
: Therefore, judicial decisions finding copyright infringement based on the nonconsensual creation of …
: My purpose in gathering this informal, conversational feedback is to bring voices into the “how …
: The AI Act holds promise to set a global precedent in regulating AI to address its risks while …
: Personally I feel like it’s a dangerous precedent because it shifts open source from a …
: Reduce Competitor’s Moat. Llama 2 hurts two kinds of competitors. The first is companies with …
: The tools that people use to do their jobs, and the tasks that might now get a new layer of …
: Let me paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s remark to Dan Quayle during the vice-presidential debate in 1988: …
: Rather, there are two separate threads – only one of which can properly be called a body of …
: Now, the Supreme Court will decide whether to take the next logical step and strike down laws …
: Many developers have been working to bring awareness to the problems of massive, centralize …
: In San Francisco’s District 8, a public library has been shutting down Wi-Fi outside business hours …
: Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and …
: Picture this: control over forum infrastructure is not concentrated in a single, centralized …
: Accurate numbers for food loss from konbinis are not published, but from public information the …
: We will also study the policies and procedures being established by instructors, publishers, and …
: So much of what people call “conviction” is actually a willful disregard for facts that might change …
: The whole point of going from free-of-charge to very-expensive with these APIs is to get OpenAI and …
: Let’s buy the Oakland A’s. There is a model. #mutualism
: Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the …
: It’s not lost on me that two-thirds of the world’s school-aged children don’t even have internet at …
: As I stated in my veto letter for SB1001, I will veto every bill that aims to attack and harm …
: To address this need we introduce value scenarios, an extension of scenario-based design which can …
: Looking forward to being a part of this conversation at #RightsCon
: Cutting access is an awful decision Friedenbach said that free Wi-Fi is crucial for homeless people to access services, make calls, …
: Steven Kabuye, a human rights activist in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, told The Guardian the act …
: Tech companies are laying off their ethics and safety teams.
: “We’ve built the infrastructure for nuanced moderation” is not an adequate answer to people who are …
: If it’s going to work with me, it ought to pass the interview, right? It didn’t. In fact, it failed …
: time to reread The Space Merchants? The industry provides corporate and government clients with insight into conversations on private, …
: The organisation, along with GLAAD, analysed the tweets of nine prominent right-wing figures and …
: As Ellul already knew in the 1950s, a society ordered by technique is necessarily inhospitable to …
: They tend to start out making products that western companies are willing to concede to them because …
: By contrast, when a human body uses language, it is a clear indication of a deep and broad array of …
: Make sure you have the resources and resolve to develop your following and your skills regardless of …
: On top of the dangers of weaponizing medical research, AI in healthcare settings poses a risk of …
: I got a chance to write about what we are trying to accomplish in our project with Filecoin …
: Unconstitutional TikTok ban would open the door to press censorship. Slippery? Meet slope.
: Michael Tsai - Blog - Post-Twitter Diaspora Options.
: These are great examples of using AI as a collaborator -> Hot AI Summer (or, my practical uses …
: These models are used and created by people who are deeply immersed in their particular subgenre, …
: I spent the three days at the #GoodTechFest in Washington D.C. It has given me a lot to think about. …
: …let’s call it the “More Data framework.” This framework allows us to be pragmatic and work …
: The business community has grown far more quiet in the face of 469 anti-LGBTQ bills that the ACLU is …
: Support youth writing I’m on the board of Chapter 510 , an Oakland-based writing program for youth. Tonight, I …
: This is the final inversion of blogging: not just publishing before selecting, nor researching …
: Not only are political groups setting up nonprofits as fronts for political money laundering, they …
: Though it makes me feel like a grandmother on her deathbed to admit it, I remember the days when the …
: What a message to big brands and celebrities: stop posting to Twitter and they’ll reassign your …
: I want to noodle around for a moment with a different issue: deskilling. From danah boyd via …
: Spring has sprung in our little backyard.
: This seems like the journalism version of the community reinvestment act -> techpolicy.press
: At the same time, digital access gaps mean women produce less data than men, and a lack of data …
: …President Carter showed the world by example what a public servant could be, what a public servant …
: In this blog post, I will make the argument that prompt engineering is a real skill that can be …
: PhotoSwipe: Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery
: It’s a zero sum game–paying for a slot increases market share by stealing sales from the …
: The collective findings reveal an increase … in hate crimes and efforts to change classroom …
: But ChatGPT’s availability has altered the landscape, enabling people to generate entire …
: Mifepristone and the rule of law, part II
: Cal Newport’s thoughts on ChatGPT: calnewport.com
: Honestly, at this point using ChatGPT in the way that I do feels like a massively unfair competitive …
: ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it really looks like it can
: Terrific breakdown of David Bowie’s Changes from www.ethanhein.com
: Good marketing is the craft of understanding what people want and need and helping them achieve it. …
: Daring Fireball: Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko With Nilay Patel on Decoder
: A gift to dictatorial leaders who hide behind claims of persecution, these corrosive changes occur …
: …how do I work with something that’s completely unreliable, that invents things, that comes up with …
: In looking at this, we wanted to frame the work of Makers — and the digital solutions they are …
: …. governments, businesses, and civil society organizations should develop norms and policies for …
: I don’t want streaming music, I just want to stream my music • Cory Dransfeldt
: Harris is a woman and Harris is Black and Harris is a Black woman and that underlies the media …
: Deciding Whether to Respond to Breaking News (or Not)
: What the US can learn fro Europe on addressing disinformation
: US IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement agents are using an obscure legal tool to demand data from …
: The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a …
: The only way to escape the productivity treadmill is to actively choose what matters to you. If …
: But women around the world are finding ways to access the pills despite barriers, from turning to …
: Hacker’s larger argument is that both high schools and colleges should switch to teaching more …
: Finished reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚Beautifully written examination of poverty …
: By the time Brazil’s environmental special forces team piled out, the miners were out of sight, but …
: Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data It helps people take data of …
: MO lawmakers strip library funding over book ban lawsuit - The Kansas City Star
: Why Engineers Need To Write - by Ryan Peterman When I write design docs, I often discover …
: Uganda’s new anti-LGBTIQ bill includes life in prison - openDemocracy
: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill If the bill becomes law, those found guilty could face up to 20 …
: How AI might change our judgement and decision-making
: I’m enjoying mastodon more and more Not only the absence of algorithmic feeds, but the fact that …
: Wordpress and ActivityPub The federated social web - here I’m talking about the idea, not specific …
: GPT-4 Techical Report via Simon Williston.
: Urge Congress: Permanently expand SNAP benefits! - Feeding America It takes just a minute. Do this …
: Hate crimes increased in 2021, in the US
: Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Rich - The Nation But, you know, school loan …
: Tell Congress to fund libraries
: Fragility & Boundary Conditions - Blog Here are a few common ways that increase the fragility …
: Joe Biden Is a Mediocre Liberal, Yet a Successful President The truth is that Biden fulfilled a …
: Using AI to forecast food crisis
: Write a great feature request This is what we are trying to do at Caravan Studios for civil society …
: We can’t fail our Afghan allies Despite being thoroughly vetted by Homeland Security, Afghan …
: Barbican library creates map of LGBTQ authors It’s colour-coded and designed similarly to the …
: A Racially Biased Scoring System Helps Pick Who Receives Housing in L.A. – The Markup A question …
: “Sellers’ Inflation, Profits and Conflict: Why can Large Firms Hike Pr” by Isabella M. …
: Wired shares its generative AI policy
: The vibration is the way in (presets and intros) A great sample works on the original in a sense, …
: Google is giving Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides a Material You redesign - The Verge I’m excited …
: It’s time to take back control of what we read on the internet
: Alaska re-legalizes LGBT discrimination.
: val town Vals are snippets of code that live under your username, can be scheduled, called, and …
: Teacher turnover hits new highs across the U.S.
: Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start – The Markup
: Micro.blog – Blogging on the Fediverse (And Everywhere Else) - Aywren’s Nook - Gaming & …
: Daring Fireball: Josh Marshall: ‘The Deep Archeology of Fox News’
: Stand up tile counters keep diners moving at Los Tacos No. 1.
: South Carolina’s newest pro life bill would subject people getting abortions to the death penalty. …
: Fountain Society Many public things are utilitarian; they are also interfaces to what economists …
: I love how Micro.blog posts to my Mastodon account. Can it work the other way? Posts on my Mastodon …
: Extra federal food stamp assistance ending leaving nearly 100k San Franciscans at risk of food …
: Solitude, end of the night, business travel.
: The weather looks more dreary than it is.
: How to stop the internet becoming a junk heap - Prospect Magazine We might also benefit from …
: The Future of Flipboard Is Federated
: Kenya: Supreme Court rules in favour of LGBTQ rights group …the right to freedom of association is …
: This is your brain on fraud apologetics Search Google … and the top result will be a paid ad for a …
: The PARA method from Forte Labs. Big fan, with a tweak. I’ve added “Responsibilites”: PARRA. Areas …
: SNAP is returning to pre-pandemic benefit levels. It shouldn’t be.
: Marginalia Search “This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, …
: Finished reading: Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust by Loretta Lynn 📚 Prompted me to rewatch Ken Burns’ …
: A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route …
: Writing an engineering strategy “This document–often an implicit document that no one’s ever quite …
: Finished reading: Spare by Prince Harry 📚 Not sure what the fuss was about.
: Beautiful, heartbreaking read Finished reading: Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 📚 I read and loved Shuggie Bain, also by Douglas …